Righting wrongs

Decolonising the ‘idea of the farmer’ through the eyes of Munshi Premchand

A critical analysis of the Hindi author’s stories can help policymakers empathically tear into the cobweb that has the Indian farmer …

Punctured cover: India's crop insurance scheme loses sheen

Insurers withdraw from Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana as extreme weather events spike claim rates resulting in heavy losses

What to expect before Modi’s 'maha' deal for farmers

With just four months left for general elections, the Centre's package for farmers, even if cleared, will be partially implemented and left for …

Why Centre's revised MSP for Kharif season is not encouraging for farmers

Apart from not factoring in increasing input costs, the renewed emphasis on revised MSP is taking away the focus from key interventions that …

Scrap laws banning cattle slaughter, farm exports: Farmers

Farmer organisations say these laws and several others ensure farmers do not get their rightful pay

Agrarian crisis one of the biggest challenges for new govt

Sustainability, more than anything else is agriculture’s biggest challenge. Whoever can manage water can claim to be Indian agriculture&…

Divide and rule

The failure of India's rural planning policies is due to the lack of understanding of human-land relationship

NSO survey: Most farmers selling in local markets, government agencies procure the least

Farmers in general satisfied with return from local sale, but a significant percentage of them get lower than market price

Mangroves and Khazan agriculture: Sustaining Goa’s promise for fish, curry and rice

Lands under estuarine agricultural system, called Khazan farming, are in state of decay 

In search of famine

HARVESTING HUNGER·A video film by Krishnendu Bose·Duration: 53 minutes

Why are Madhya Pradesh farmers throwing away their garlic crops?

The production of the allium has doubled in the last decade; Chinese, Iranian garlic with larger cloves in greater demand, say farmers

Farm laws effect: Farmers’ protests in India increased 38% in 2020 after 3 years of decline

Number of protests increased in 12 states, with Jharkhand leading the tally

COVID-19: Bracing for agrarian crisis and food insecurity

Distress among marginal farmers and unavailability of food to migrant labourers has been largely ignored in Union government’s economic …

Can MGNREGA be a tool for post-COVID-19 rural recovery

Agriculture is the least-affected sector of the economy. It is poised to gain and lead economy’s revival process